_Unknown BREWSTER _
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William was a passenger on the Mayflower accopanied by his wife Maryand their sons Love and Wrestling.
William Brewster, who was master of the post station at Scrooby Manor,joined this church, later becoming its Ruling Elder. William Bradford,too, from nearby Austerfield, Yorkshire, joined the separatistreligion and became a life-long follower and friend to ElderBrewster. In Bradford's own words, church members "were hunted andpersecuted on every
side, so as their former afflictions were as flea-bitings incomparison with these that now came upon them. For some were takenand clapt up in prison, others had their houses besett and watchtnight and day, and hardly escaped their hands; and the most werefaine to flie and leave their howses and habitations, and the meansof their livelihood." The congregation thus decided in 1607 to move toHolland, which allowed considerable freedom to religious dissenters,and where other English religious refugees had already fled. Becauseof difficulty with the English government in leaving England,including imprisonment for some, such as William Brewster, they didnot complete their move to Holland until 1608.3
At first the Clyfton-Robinson congregation lived in Amsterdam; butafter about one year they
decided to move to Leiden because of much quarreling between theseveral English churches in Amsterdam. Mr. Clyfton continued as amember of the church when it was in Leiden, but "being setled atAmsterdam and thus aged hee was loth to Remove any more," and so heremained in Amsterdam until he died in 1616. Some of the dates ofevents and elections in this church remain obscure, and John Robinsonpossibly became pastor in Amsterdam; it is certain that he held theposition as soon as they moved to Leiden, and, not long after, WilliamBrewster was known to be Ruling Elder and John Carver was a deacon.
Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691
Part One: Chronological Histories
Chapter 1: The Old Comers (1620-1627)Parts of Chapter 1 appeared inStratton and Wakefield, "A Historical
Background for Early Plymouth colony Genealogical Research,"Genealogical Journal 13 (1984-85): 135-99.
This was the beginnings of the reason for the voyage of the Mayflowerand the early summary of William Brewster's background prior to hisleaving for Plymouth, Mass.
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